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A message sent by laser reached Earth from a record and unprecedented distance of 16 million kilometers. Source: Bruhl R Karen Teixeira Brazil meteorite
Scientists successfully sent and received laser messages between Earth and the DSOC experiment aboard the Psyche spacecraft.
The space agency says this is the farthest-ever demonstration of optical communications.
Eventually, we're going to want to expand the World Wide Web across the galaxy, and NASA just demonstrated a key piece of tech that could help, beaming messages via laser across a distance of almost 16 million kilometers or 10 million miles.
This was NASA's first test of its Deep Space Optical Communications system, which could one day bring streaming to Mars.